This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two Fearing the Black Body is a non-fiction book by American sociologist Sabrina Strings about the history of fatphobia, which Strings argues is rooted in anti-Black racism. More. It was published by New York University Press under the full title Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. Fearing the Black Body. eBookePub. This book is about the origins of the p